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" We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. "
Bernard Williams
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May
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" Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. "
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" Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. "
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" We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice. "
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" In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. "
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" Good order is the foundation of all things. "
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" Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons. "
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" If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. "
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" If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. "
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" Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. "
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" 'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer. "
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" Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. "
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" Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire. "
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" Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. "
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" One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. "
Helen Keller
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Consent
" You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. "
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You
" Nothing endures but personal qualities. "
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" Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. "
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Brainy
Rain
" Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. "
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" Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. "
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" We adore chaos because we love to produce order. "
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" Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. "
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" A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. "
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" Our first intuitions are the true ones. "
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" I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger. "
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" Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. "
Charles Baudelaire
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" There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. "
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" People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position. "
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